Niamh Stephenson: 2 books

Socialising the Biomedical Turn in HIV Prevention

by Susan Kippax, Niamh Stephenson
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016

This book concerns HIV prevention. The authors argue that until the world focuses its attention on the social issues carried and revealed by AIDS, it is unlikely that HIV transmission will be eradicated or even significantly reduced. Currently we are witnessing the remedicalisation or the continuing...

Escape Routes

Control and Subversion in the Twenty-First Century

by Dimitris Papadopoulos, Niamh Stephenson, Vassilis Tsianos
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015

Illegal migrants who evade detection, creators of value in insecure and precarious working conditions and those who refuse the constraints of sexual and biomedical classifications: these are the people who manage to subvert power and to craft unexpected sociabilities and experiences. Escape Routes...